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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today is Tuesday, February 6, and we're looking at Royal Caribbean International vs. Explora Journeys.
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1:07.0 | Today, we begin with a riddle. |
1:09.0 | What has eight neighborhoods, about 20 restaurants, and houses more than 7,000 people, but doesn't have property taxes. Here's a hint. |
1:24.9 | That's right, it's a cruise ship, but not just any cruise ship. It's Royal Caribbean International's icon of the seas. |
1:33.1 | The brand new vessel replaces the company's wonder of the seas as the biggest cruise ship in the world. |
1:39.3 | It took nearly three years and cost nearly $2 billion to build and takes up roughly four city blocks. |
1:46.6 | That's about five times the size of the Titanic, CNN reports. And when it launched on its first |
1:52.2 | voyage in late January, company CEO Jason Liberty called it, quote, the biggest baddest ship on the planet. |
1:59.5 | Critics of the cruise industry agree with him, about the |
2:02.3 | baddest part anyway. The ship runs on liquefied natural gas or LNG, which burns cleaner than |
2:08.8 | other typical marine fuels, according to a CNBC report. However, those marine fuels contain high |
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